E-Books increase Global Warming, researchers say (satire)

Colin Dunstan · 11-16-2004, 08:28 AM

If you think that e-books are helping the environment, you could be wrong. According to researchers, there is an "incredible amount of energy required to successfully pay for, download, and open the e-book":

"Particularly using the Adobe scheme, we found that to download a 2 megabyte e-book required a user actively participating in various logins, registrations, and downloads for an average of 12 hours, resulting in an average of 173.2 megabytes of data transfer," explained Arther, "Boiling all that down to kilowatt hours of energy shows that e-books consume approximately 18 times the fossil fuel of an equivalent published work."

This is not an April joke it seems (edit: well perhaps I should give that a second thought, *shame*). 173.2 MB to download an e-book?? Could someone explain? Perhaps I am missing something in that story...

Unregistered · 11-16-2004, 08:39 AM

The site's tagline is "Clean, family-friendly news satire and parody"

Colin Dunstan · 11-16-2004, 08:41 AM

OK I admit I didn't see that. But why ruin the fun of having this pseudo-intellectual discussion?

I promise I will look more closely in future

Bob Russell · 11-16-2004, 09:06 AM

Not a total loss... I've got a new parody site now

TadW · 11-16-2004, 09:42 AM

It is funny, you have to give them that

11-16-2004, 08:28 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	E-Books increase Global Warming, researchers say (satire) If you think that e-books are helping the environment, you could be wrong. According to researchers, there is an "incredible amount of energy required to successfully pay for, download, and open the e-book": "Particularly using the Adobe scheme, we found that to download a 2 megabyte e-book required a user actively participating in various logins, registrations, and downloads for an average of 12 hours, resulting in an average of 173.2 megabytes of data transfer," explained Arther, "Boiling all that down to kilowatt hours of energy shows that e-books consume approximately 18 times the fossil fuel of an equivalent published work." This is not an April joke it seems (edit: well perhaps I should give that a second thought, shame). 173.2 MB to download an e-book?? Could someone explain? Perhaps I am missing something in that story...

11-16-2004, 08:39 AM	#2
Unregistered Nameless Being	Look more carefully The site's tagline is "Clean, family-friendly news satire and parody"

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11-16-2004, 08:41 AM	#3
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	OK I admit I didn't see that. But why ruin the fun of having this pseudo-intellectual discussion? I promise I will look more closely in future

11-16-2004, 09:06 AM	#4
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Not a total loss... I've got a new parody site now

11-16-2004, 09:42 AM	#5
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,583 Karma: 1094606 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	It is funny, you have to give them that